Daft Punk's Random Access Memories

magic carpet ride is the jam <--life philosophy

― suggest bando (The Reverend), Wednesday, July 31, 2013 11:00 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

this is the title of a drake song right

#MCRITJ

i would eat a molecular gastronomist's cheeseburger

yesterday's news, but: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/drew-daniel-daft-punk

Fantastic piece Dr3w

I misread the Byline><Title format as "Drew Daniel>Daft Punk". Didn't understand that Mr. Daniel himself was writing the piece until a few paragraphs in.

Man that's good. The paragraph that begins "Second" nails it.

this might be better than anything on this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yP4qdefD2To

"get lucky" is p good tho

Johnny By Rzeznik

hahaha

GOO GOO DOLLS: THE SOUND OF THE FUTURE. THE WAY OF THE FUTURE.

Maybe Daft Punk will take another left on their next album and it'll be filled with polished Replacements inspired Alt-Rock.

And now you got me looking up random Goo Goo Dolls covers and remixes:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QohTkTIj6sA

we still need to do an @umairh twitpic slideshow to "slide"

tombot otm as always

I think I would have enjoyed this album more if they'd bumped the BPMs up by at least 10 across the board on the first 9 tracks

― THE WORINÐLVE (DJP), Wednesday, July 31, 2013 9:02 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yessss

Has this leaked yet?

We're Up All Night to Goo Lucky

After hating this record, I read the interview w/them in Wax Poetics, they talk a good game, made me want to listen to the album again. Fuck, reading them talking about making the album is so much better than listening to the album.

DJP OTM

Fuck, reading them talking about making the album is so much better than listening to the album.

Remix version will just be them talking about the making of the album over the album tracks.

look forward to the 'giorgio by moroder' remix

Drew pretty goddamn OTM. Thank you for being that, Drew. Also, you write pretty good.

we still need to do an @umairh twitpic slideshow to "slide"

― ᶓ͠סּᴥ͠סּᶔ ᶓͼ᷆ₓͼ᷇ᶔ (gr8080), Thursday, August 1, 2013 1:55 PM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I've been working on this, I think we might finally have enough photos

I'm gonna use "Iris" though

Been thinking hard about the "accept the premise" aspect of this crap. There's a plot on a grid somewhere that puts the exceptional nature of the premise on one axis against the execution of the premise on the other; works are plotted on this grid and people's tolerances are drawn as curves to include or exclude the works so plotted. I think the more we record everything (and create compilations of antecedents, in their original form) maybe this starts to demand a Z axis specifically to represent anachronism; like, if there were well-known heiroglyphics of poop holes, dada might still be fuck you but it would be couched in respectable tradition of fuck you representations since civilization. And even the best executed poop hole performance by the most unexpected entrant into vienna actionism would still be (appropriately) shackled as homage rather than innovation.

Famous Performer shits onto a sidewalk from a Hilton, instagrams it: wow innovative (in a world where nobles taking demonstrative "society blows" shits off the hanging gardens was maybe a thing, but totally arcane trivia)
vs
same scenario: catchy but really why the hype, also, we expected more for the money (in a world where everybody had to read about the hanging garden rich kid dump stunt thing in 9th grade, and there is a channel on cable never shuts up about it except for 6 hours at a time)

I don't even know where I'm going with this other than still trying to synthesize a well-formed ethos to explain why this record, Radiohead, and a whole bunch of other shit piss me off to no end while other things don't. If you love music this much, and you want to make meta-music, step the fuck outside and let's DESTROY MUSIC ALREADY. BREAK ON THROUGH. STOP HALF ASSING, TALENT AND HARD WORK ARE NOT ENOUGH TO CHANGE ANYTHING. AARGH WASTED OPPORTUNITIES.

Good night gorilla.

I heard a rumor that this record was actually made by Banksy.

is there a thread about the right words for this? contemporary exceptionalism, contemporary infrastructure, anachronism with the aim of nostalgia vs. without, ultimate exceptionalism. I just need to triangulate merzpop in 3D ok

what the hell are you even talking about now?

he's talking about how much this album sucks

op, op

get lucky would be better if it were get funky

i want more people to do songs like the moroder one, where simply talking about a click track becomes the 'drop'.

Doin’ It Right” sounds shockingly clean, fresh, new and self-sufficient. Unconcerned about the past, the song seems slanted entirely towards the future

ive kinda grown tired of the album now and just relisten to individual songs alone - doin it right is the best song on there i think, purely for this reason. the historical tribute/reenactment of the rest of the album has marred it a bit for me, even though i still do love it for that same reason (in the same way i loved and then wondered what the point of dangelo's voodoo was, another record focused on period detail and glorious sonics), doin it right seems like what daft punk have always been great at, that retro future mode - its like the beach boys going trap/electro (but obviously better than and much less horrible than that reads).

not sure if this has been posted, heard it on KROQ:

http://pitchfork.com/news/51728-daft-punk-to-appear-on-the-colbert-report/

Now, it's been confirmed that Daft Punk will appear on "The Report" on Tuesday, August 6, as part of the "Colbchella" series.
So, yeah. This should be awesome.

so we're in the backlash phase of this album, before it comes back full circle and finishes in the top 5 in the ilm poll

I had a personal backlash already. I didn't listen for 3 weeks. I bought a 5$ royal scam on vinyl and played this after. It was still great.

But obv royal scam for $5 is way better than this for $40. But I don't really think about music that way.

I scored the 1999 remastered CD of royal scam today. Everyone needs royal scam. Bring on a steel dan bluray box set.

Yeah. I'm seeing them live for the first time in a few weeks.

Grew up on citizen. But hadn't bought all of the albums yet.

Listening to royal scam as a piece seriously made me question my countdown to ecstasy vote.

Citizen has all the albums + "fm" , right? no static at all...

I'm an Aja man through and through

i'm doing the Steely Dan poll and it will touchdown first quarter of 2014.

If it helps on the backlash narrative, I just wanna state clearly that I have hated this album from square one. It's daft punks load/reload moment IMO.

Before you get all tweaked, I didn't call it their "lulu"

It doesn't help.

In fact, you submitted that information as a problem for the backlash narrative.